Bret Stephens Quotes
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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For most people, tweeting is scary.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.
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Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
